The Third Industrial Revolution

"We have the science and technology to do
it, but it will mean nothing unless there is a change in will."
— Jeremy Rifkin

We are on the cusp of a Third Industrial Revolution that
could give us a door open to a new post-fossil fuel era. It was the first
Industrial Revolution that brought together print and literacy with coal
steam and rail. The second combined the telegraph and telephone with the
internal combustion engine and oil. What we now have now is the possibility
of a distributed energy revolution. We can all create our own energy, store
it, and then distribute it to each other. Twenty five years from now
millions of buildings will become power plants that will load renewable
energy. We will load solar power from the sun, wind from turbines and even
ocean waves on each coast. We can also make the power grid of the world
smart and intelligent; we call it inter-grid. Not far from now, millions and
millions of people will load power to buildings, store it in the form of
hydrogen and distribute energy peer-to-peer; just like digital media and the
internet. The first inter-grids are going up in the United States this year
in Houston, Boulder Colorado, and Southern California. The "Third Industrial
Revolution" is an economic game plan. We have the science and technology to
do it, but it will mean nothing unless there is a change in will.